Teen Time : Science in the House! Meet an Aerospace Software Engineer!

Tue, Dec 5 2023
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Park Slope, Meeting Room

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Meet an Aerospace Engineer! 

** Note this month's speaker is part of our week of Hour of Code activities and events!  This event is open to Tweens, Teens, and Adults **
 

Explore our world! In the Science in the House series teens get a chance to meet with all kinds of interesting scientists and other people. 

Hear their stories and learn more about their lives and their work. Discover what life as a scientist is like.

Meet Ponder Stine!

Aerospace Software Engineer 

Explore one of the many great career options out there for computer coders! 

 

Ponder Stine is a professional software engineer at Amazon on their aerospace venture, Project Kuiper. In 2022 he graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Sciences with a B.S./M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a Minor in Computer Science. Previously, he was an Undergraduate Research Assistant on a NASA-funded research project (BrainStim), a Graduate Space Scholar on an experimental GPS satellite (NTS-3) being developed by the Air Force Research Lab, and an Embedded Flight Software Engineer on the MAXWELL CubeSat project at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Currently, Ponder is an Embedded Software Engineer on Project Kuiper, Amazon's venture at providing broadband internet connectivity to unserved and underserved communities via a constellation network of satellites. In this role he is responsible for leading the development of an embedded software application running on the ground antennas that will talk to over 3,200 Project Kuiper satellites!

Outside of work, Ponder can be found reading on his Kindle, watching movies with his projector, or listening to podcasts whilst walking around Redmond, WA, where he resides.

 

 
 
 
 

Check out our padlet below for more!

Be sure to post your questions and comments! 

 

 

"Check out" this interesting human being (instead of a book).


Join us in person at the Park Slope Library TeenZone, or join in via Zoom!

Please be sure to register for this event to save your place to the right and get the Zoom information. 

 

 

NOTE: Registration is encouraged but not required - unless joining by Zoom. 

 

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